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Wolfire & Dark Catt's antitrust suit against Steam has been certified as a 'class action', with 'all Steam devs who got paid out since 2017' now part of the eligible group (x.com)

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[–] jeeva@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay, to reverse the question then - have you ever seen anything that supports there being something contractual to say thar non--Steam copies can't be sold at lower prices? Like, the terms you mention above? I've read the public docs, and can find nothing.

I can think of multiple times when, e.g. Ubisoft games, Rockstar games, have been sold on EGS or their own launcher for far cheaper than the version on Steam - so we're both supported by anecdata, here.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago

There's been a lot of articles and discussion about it since this lawsuit first showed up, and the general gist that I've seen is that:

It's not codified in their agreements, but
They can / have in the past either removed products from the Steam store entirely or removed them from curated marketing and promotion in response to the game being listed elsewhere at a lower price.

They seem to handle it on a case by case basis, but in those cases it's definitely not been restricted only to the sale of Steam keys. They just don't have any firm legalese to refer to here that I'm aware of.